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I got an A on my "Republicans are assholes" history term paper.
Okay, that deserves some explanation. My term paper for African American history was on the realignment of the 1930s, the massive shift of African American voters from the GOP to FDR's coalition. Originally I expected to focus on the New Deal and its appeal to blacks, but the more I researched the more I found a preexisting groundswell of black discontent with the GOP, and the bulk of my paper ended up being about how the Republicans abused the trust of and antagonized black supporters in the 1920s and 1930s. I concluded that blacks were essentially driven from the GOP, and the only reason they stuck around as long as they did was because the Democrats were pretty much assholes too. Once the Democrats stopped trying to be bigger racist pricks than the Republicans, blacks jumped ship pretty much en masse.
Okay, that deserves some explanation. My term paper for African American history was on the realignment of the 1930s, the massive shift of African American voters from the GOP to FDR's coalition. Originally I expected to focus on the New Deal and its appeal to blacks, but the more I researched the more I found a preexisting groundswell of black discontent with the GOP, and the bulk of my paper ended up being about how the Republicans abused the trust of and antagonized black supporters in the 1920s and 1930s. I concluded that blacks were essentially driven from the GOP, and the only reason they stuck around as long as they did was because the Democrats were pretty much assholes too. Once the Democrats stopped trying to be bigger racist pricks than the Republicans, blacks jumped ship pretty much en masse.